Reclining-chair



(No Model.)

' W. A. SHULER.

} RECLINING CHAIR. No. 366,980. Patented July 19, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT Garrett.

XVILLIAM A. SHULER, OF NE\V DOVER, OHIO.

RECLlNlNG-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,980, dated July 19, 1887.

Application filed May 18, 1887. Serial No. 23 ,641. (No modeLl To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. SHULER,

a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at New Dover, in the county of Union 5 and State of Ohio, have invented. certain new and useful lmprovements in Reclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in reclining-chairs; and it consists in the detailed construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts,substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my invention with parts broken away. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3

is a central longitudinal sectional view. Fig.

4 is a detail, and Fig. 5 is a view of a modification, of my invention.

The object of this invention is to provide a reclining-chair with means for regulating the tension of the canvas body thereof, and to al- Ways retain the same at the proper tension,in

whatever position the chair may be caused to assume.

In carrying out my invention I employ the scatframe A and the back-frame A, the for- 3 mer being designed to fit between the side bars -of the latter wider frame, A. These frames are pivoted together by means of a cross-rod or round, a, passed through openings in the side bars of the seat-frame A and Testing 5 and working in slots a, formed in the side bars of the outer backframe, A, as showmand immediatelyin rear of this cross-rod or round is disposed a second cross-rod or round, a, se-

cured in openings of the side bars of the frame A. The side bars of the frame A are additionally held in position by cross-rods at its upper and lower ends, as are also the side bars of the frame A, the latter being also pro vided at its upper end with a head-piece,

t5 carved or suitably embellished to add to the appearance of the chair.

B is the canvas body, secured at one end to the upper cross-rod or round of the frame A,

and is passed around the cross-rod or round a,

workingin the slota, and then overand around the adjoining cross-rod or round a, and thence carried forward to and passed around the front cross-rod of the inner frame, A, where it is stitched to itself, or otherwise secured.

To theinner side of the side bars of the outer frame, A, are pivotally secured the upper ends of arms b I), carrying at their other ends a cross-rod, b, the ends'of which project, as shown, and are designed to fit in corresponding grooves or notches,b, formed in the upper edges of the side bars of the frame A, whereby said frame A can be held in any desired rcelining position.

It will be seen byreference to Fig. 2 that the seat portion of the frame A occupies a horizonta-l position, and that from the point where the second cross-rod or round, a, is secured said side bars are made on an angle to their outer lower ends; and it will also be seen that the side bars of the frame A are perfectly straight, and that said frame always occupies an oblique posit-ion.

From what has been said it will be observed that by reason of the cross rod or round working in the slots of the frame A and the stationary adjoining cross-*rod or round the canvas body passed around said cross-rod or round will always be held tight, for when a person sits on the chair the cross-rod or round a, which is nominally at the upper ends of the slots a, will be forced down therein, thus tightening the canvas body, as stated.

By reason of the described formation of the side bars of the frame A, the seat will always occupy a horizontal plane, and the cross-rod carried by the pivoted arm Z) will hold the inclined frame A at the desired point.

I claim as my invention- 1. The herein-described reclining-chair, comprising the frames, the cross-rod or round secured in one of said frames and working in slots formed in the other frame, the canvas body passed around and under said cross-rod or round, and the pivoted arms carrying a cross-rod, substantially as shown and described.

2. As an improvement in reclining-chairs, the frame having slots formed in its side bars, the inner frame, the cross rod or roundpassed therethrough and working in said slots, the adjoining cross-rod or round, and the canvas body passed around and under said cross-rods 1 said cross-rods or rounds, substantially as to or rounds, substantially as shown and de l shown, and for the purposes stated. scribed. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 3. The'combination; withthe outer inclined presence of two witnesses. frame having slots in the side bars thereof, of the inner frame having front horizontal portions, the adjoining cross-rods or rounds, one Witnesses: of which works in said slots of the outer frame, J AS. S. MOGAMPBELL, and the canvas body'passed under and around WiLLIAM A. SHULER.

JOHN M. BRODRICK. 

